Trafford Park
Connie Curlett (centre) with workmates from Metro-Vickers Heat Treatment Department, c1935 |
Miss Connie Curlett - EngineeringBorn 1920 Trafford Park. Interviewed 1989 - T021  Click here to listen to this extract in RealAudio format.As you came in you had to clock in and then you'd, if you didn't have a job from the day before to finish off, you used to go there to this little window and he'd give you the next job, a card. You took the card, then, to the setter-up, and he set up the little winding machines that we used - I mean, you could do a spring like they have in lighters, you could wind something like that ... You had to wind your first few, then you took them to the inspector, and they checked them and said you'd got it right. If it was wrong, you went back to the setter-up and then he'd adjust the machine to get it right, but he usually knew from the drawings - you didn't deal with the drawings at all, you always had somebody to do it. |
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